water-color

Questions about water-color

What does water-color mean?

water-color means "water-soluble pigment". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in water-color?

water-color has 4 syllables and divides as wa-ter--co-lor under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for water-color?

Close synonyms include watercolor, watercolour, water-colour, watercolor, watercolour. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is water-color a common word?

water-color is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.